How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.

All people have similar desires and needs. They only pursue them in different ways.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.